Man dies in new work accident

A 60-YEAR-OLD man was killed yesterday on a Paphos construction site when a colleague drove a truck into the van he was sitting in. The incident was the second workplace fatality in a week and the third accident.

The tragedy occurred in Polis Chrysouhou at a site in the Limnis region. Neophytos Makrantonis, 60, an electrician for the contractor was sitting in a small van on the site when a 150 ton lorry driven by a Romanian worker crashed into it, killing him instantly. The circumstances surrounding his death are currently under investigation.

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